2017 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
# 2017 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The following lists events in the year 2017 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

## Incumbents

* President: Joseph Kabila
* Prime Minister: Samy Badibanga, Bruno Tshibala

## Events

* 2017: Morgan Stanley projects 1 billion electric vehicles in use globally by 2050 and 800% increase in demand for cobalt, used in electric car batteries, by 2026.
* February 2017 - Glencore agreed to pay Dan Gertler $534m (£407m) for his share of their joint mining interests in DR Congo.
* 14 February 2017 – The UN reveals that Congolese soldiers had killed 101 people including 30 women while fighting the Kamwina Nsapu rebels in Kasaï-Central.
* 23 March 2017 – 2017 Congolese police decapitation attacks
* 22 April 2017 to 1 July 2017 – 2017 Democratic Republic of the Congo Ebola virus outbreak
* July 2017 - United Nations has documented 80 mass graves in Kasai unrest that began in August 2016
* 7 August 2017 -Congolese soldiers forces killed at least 14 Bundu dia Kongo (BDK) rebels in clashes in the capital Kinshasa and southwestern city of Matadi.A policeman also died.
* 16 August 2017 – 2017 DR Congo landslide
* 26 August 2017 – The Democratic Republic of the Congo gubernatorial elections, 2017, are held in 11 provinces.
* 29 August 2017 – Three provinces have a second round of voting as part of the gubernatorial elections.
* 6 November 2017 - details emerge in Paradise Papers reporting of a loan from Glencore to Dan Gertler in 2008 when it needed to renegotiate its agreement with state mining company Gécamines for its Katanga mine.
* 7 December 2017 – 2017 Semuliki attack
* 21 December 2017 – Delayed gubernatorial elections are held in three provinces (Kasaï-Central, Mongala, and Equateur).

### 2017 trends

* 2017: the price of cobalt increased 127% over the course of 2017.
* 2017: Congo DR produced 64,000 metric tons of cobalt.

## Deaths

* 1 February – Étienne Tshisekedi, politician (b. 1932).
